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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• The House moves ahead with a plan to place North Carolina Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry in the position of speaker pro-tempore.
• Sidney Powell pleads guilty to six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit election interference in Geprgia’s Fulton County Superior Court.
• U.S. Capitol Police arrest hundreds of protesters in a congressional office building who were calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. 
• America has given Iran much more than $6 billion, foreign policy expert says.
• U.S. Central Command reports drone attacks on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Syria. 

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“Israel is a country who cherishes life,” Yael Eckstein says, “and our enemies know that."

Those enemies use that fact as a tool against Israel, adds Eckstein, president and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, who is today's guest on "The Daily Signal Podcast."  

Hamas killed 1,300 Israelis and took hostage about 200 “elderly, babies, children, women, [and] handicapped” in its surpise attack Oct. 7 on Israel, she says, and the situation is “unfathomable.”

“Even ISIS didn't do things like this,” Eckstein says, adding that when Hamas describes its aim as “to wipe Israel off the map and kill every man, woman and child, we have to take that seriously.”

Speaking as a wife, mother, and global ministry leader living in Israel, Eckstein explains that Israelis are living in a paradox right now. 

“On one hand, we are as broken as I can ever remember the people of Israel being. And on the other hand, we are stronger than we've ever been,” she says on the podcast. 

On the podcast, Eckstein describes the work in Israel of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, as well as Israel's response to the surprise terrorist attack by Hamas. 

Learn more about the Internationals Fellowship of Christians and Jews here: https://www.ifcj.org/

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• GOP House Speaker nominee Jim Jordan falls short of the 217 votes needed to win the position in the second vote Wednesday. 
• President Joe Biden lands in Israel and delivers remarks alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
• U.S. intelligence shows the deadly blast at the Gaza hospital appeared to have been caused by terrorist Hamas militants. 
•  Biden is expected to ask Congress for $100 billion in supplemental funding for Israel, Ukraine, and domestic issues that include border security. 
• The prestigious New York City based law firm Davis Polk has rescinds letters of employment to three students from Harvard and Columbia universities after the students signed onto letters backing Hamas and blaming Israel for the recent brutal violence. 

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Field reporter and former U.S. Marine Julio Rosas, who has been in Israel since Wednesday, is sharing details from the ground as the war between Hamas and Israel continues. 

"Just before I signed on to join this podcast, there was—I got alerts on my phone that there were rockets being launched further to the south of us, and so that is currently the biggest threat," said Rosas, author of "Fiery But Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America," as he joined us for an interview on "The Daily Signal Podcast."

"Also, there are some infiltrations attempts still being made, not obviously on [as] big of a scale as the initial attacks, but this is still—it's a pretty active area," said Rosas. 

Rosas was in Sderot, Israel, at the time of the interview. 

"The more north you go in Tel Aviv, which is where most of the flights go into right now, things are kind of normal. I would say that not as many businesses are open during normal hours," added Rosas. "And also just the fact, again, rockets get fired all the way as far north over there." 

Rosas, who said he was also in Northern Israel, shared that "[i]t's kind of the same story where the towns along the Lebanese border have been evacuated." 

Rosas continued: 

There's not that many people there left, and it's concerning because there's still a lot of kind of minimal fighting between the [Israel Defense Forces] and Lebanese and Hezbollah kind of back and forth.So that's one of the reasons why Israel hasn't gone fully into Gaza yet, is because they want to make sure that their northern and eastern regions are prepared for any response that they make here down south. 

Rosas joined today's episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss what he's hearing from locals about the Israel-Hamas war, what he wants Americans to know about what he's seeing on the ground in Israel, and how the situation has changed since he arrived in the war-torn country. 

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Fred Lucas reports that Senate Republicans today called for the Biden administration to refreeze $6 billion in Iranian funds amid the Israel-Hamas war, citing indications that Iran helped Hamas plan its Oct. 7 terrorist attack on the Jewish state. https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/17/gop-senators-demand-biden-refreeze-6b-for-iran/ 
• Just two weeks after California Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy was removed as speaker of the House, the spot is still vacant.  
• As the war between Hamas and Israel continues, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not mince words while discussing Hamas. 
• General Motors postpones opening an electric-pickup-truck factory in Michigan, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. 

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As the war between Hamas and Israel continues, President Joe Biden is set to visit Israel on Wednesday following an invitation from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday. 

“I think it’s important for any American president to show support for, and solidarity with, Israel in its darkest hour. I mean, this is the darkest day in Israeli history,” Nathan Sales, former ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department, said prior to Biden’s trip being confirmed. “In the 75 years that the state of Israel has existed, we’ve never seen bloodshed and violence like this.”

“In fact, it’s the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust,” said Sales, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. “Think about that. America needs to stand by our ally, our closest ally in the region and the only democracy in the region.” 

Politico reported Sunday that Biden could travel to the war-torn country “as early as this week.” 

“I think what I would like to hear from President Biden when he goes to Israel is ‘We’re going to change course on Iran. We are going to not just go after the tentacles of the octopus, the terrorist groups in Lebanon, the terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip,'” Sales said, continuing to cite what he thinks the president should say:

“We’re going to go after the head, the masters of this entire strategy. We’re going to hold them accountable as well. We’re going to deprive them of the resources that they’re investing in terror proxies to kill Jews. Oh, and by the way, to kill 30 Americans as well.”Will he actually say that? I’m not going to hold my breath.

Sales joins today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss how the U.S. can help Israel as the war continues, Iran’s history of supporting Hamas, and his thoughts on Biden’s comments during an interview with CBS that aired on Sunday night.

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Former President Donald Trump is facing new restrictions regarding what he can and cannot say. 
• Congressman Jim Jordan may have acquired the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the House. 
• Confusion looms as to whether the Rafah Crossing is open to those fleeing Gaza. 
• A catholic bishop offers to trade himself in exchange for the children being held hostage by Hamas. 
• Louisiana elects Republican Jeff Landry to serve as its new governor.
• New evidence indicates President Joe Biden’s classified documents were discovered long before they were reported to authorities. 

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A freelance writer and editor is speaking out about the negative effects of a recent California law, saying she questioned how she was “going to survive” after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, known as AB 5. 

“The law ... was signed … on Sept. 18, 2019, and when I woke up that morning and I read about it, you know, the next day, I thought, ‘This is going to be an existential threat to my career,'” recalls Karen Anderson, founder of Freelancers Against AB5, a Facebook group with over 18,000 members.

“I’m not going to—how am I going to survive?” Anderson adds of her thoughts at the time.

The website of the California Franchise Tax Board notes: “AB 5 is a bill the governor signed into law in September 2019 addressing employment status when a hiring entity claims that the person it hired is an independent contractor.”

Anderson says she has worked for almost 25 years as a freelance writer, an editor or managing editor, and a photographer. She says she “started investigating” the state’s new law “and I realized that … it encompassed all professions.”

“So golf caddies, videographers, photographers, nurse practitioners, whatever. So I thought, well, I want to find out how it’s affecting other people, not just me,” Anderson says of the law, adding:

And so I started this public Facebook group just to see if I could hear some people’s stories and … sure enough, they started coming in in … November and December, people started losing their livelihoods overnight. 

Anderson, a participant in a recent Heritage Foundation panel discussion, is today’s guest on “The Daily Signal Podcast.” She shares the No. 1 takeaway of the California law with listeners and discusses what’s being done to change it.

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Georgia Republican Rep. Austin Scott announces he will be running against Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for the speakership.
• The United Nations says Israel gave notice that all civilians living in northern Gaza should evacuate.
• Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley seeks answers regarding who is funding anti-Israel protests on college campuses. 
• Law enforcement is on high alert because Hamas designated Friday as a day of “general mobilization” to support “jihad-waging Gaza” in Israel and around the world. 

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Clement Troutman, a Navy veteran and Tropical Smoothie Café franchisee in Maryland, says that “the free enterprise system is alive and well.”

But, Troutman adds, “we need to really pursue that and go and chase those dreams.”

“Because there are people waiting,” the restaurateur says. “The cures for cancer are out there, and, you know, we’re sitting on the sidelines thinking that we don’t have what it takes when we really do.”

“So whatever it is you do, go ahead and go for your dreams because if I can do it, you can do it as well,” Troutman says.

Troutman, a participant in a recent Heritage Foundation panel discussion and today’s guest on “The Daily Signal Podcast,” also discusses the panel’s topic: “Why Protecting Independence Is Vital for Opportunities and Flexibility.” (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

“When it comes to independence, this country was founded based on independence, right?” he says. 

“We innately want … freedom, and free enterprise is alive and well, and it’s tied to that,” the founder of Troutman Alliance LLC adds. “Now, what does that mean? Well, [it’s] the freedom to choose, the freedom to live life on our own terms, to go where we want to go,” 

On the podcast, Troutman discuss his businesses, his advice to those interested in opening their own business, and the Labor Department’s recently proposed overtime rule.

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